September Call Ups Look to Impress Orioles’ Organization

The calendar page has turned to September and baseball fans know what that means. It’s time for all major league rosters expand to 40 instead of  25 during the last month of the regular season. September Call Ups have arrived. The Orioles acquired VandenHurk from the Marlins on July 31st, 2010 in exchange for Will Ohman. Managers and organizations give up and coming, future players a chance to impress their club and justify their promotion to the big leagues.  Although the Orioles’ struggles continue, there is promise in their farm system and we’ll get a sneak peak of some of their future stars this month. Before his debut in 2007, VandenHurk had not pitched above class A. Pitching As we all have seen this year, the Birds need solid pitching heading into the coming years.  Recently the organization has tried to bring in older, experienced hurlers, but that has not worked for them in the past. Building around a young core of talented pitchers will give them a better shot at improving...